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CA Activity 6: Healthy living

Student Guidelines

Overview

Warm-up Task
Participate in the
warm-up task

Study Healthy living: Find a partner for

Task 1 Complete Task 1
Part 1 Task 2

Study Healthy living: Complete Tasks 2a

Task 2
Part 2 and 2b

Pronunciation
Corner
Participate in the optional
(optional) pronunciation task

Reading
quiz Take the compulsory reading quiz Healthy Living Quiz
(assessed)
Objectives

● Discuss diet and health

● Talk about actions and their consequences
● Ask for and give advice

Materials

Healthy living
Pronunciation practice

1. /e/ and /æ/ (1)

2. /e/ and /æ/ (2)
3. /e/ and /æ/ (3)
4. /e/ and /æ/ (4)
Assessment
● 90%: Speaking task (Tasks 2a and 2b)
● 10%: Healthy Living Quiz

Warm-up task
Your teacher will post the warm-up task on the Notice board.

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Healthy Living Quiz

Your teacher will post the instructions for an assessed reading quiz (compulsory). Make sure
you do it as it counts as a 10% of your total CA grade.

Assessment criteria for Healthy Living Quiz Marks

Correct answers 0 - 10
Total mark __/10

Task 1: Healthy living tips

Study Part 1 of Healthy living

Discussing diet and health Find a partner for Task 1: Write 5
T a l k i n g a b o u t a c ti o n s
and their consequences the Tandem/Skype pieces of advice on
Giving advice conversation the wiki

Make sure to study Part 1 of Healthy living before you do the tasks below.
Find a partner

1. Go to the CA6 Partners Google Drive link in the Activity 6 tab and find a partner. You can
work with the same partner from a previous activity or a new partner, but you must be
available at the same time as your partner.

2. Arrange a date and time for your Tandem/Skype conversation in Task 2.

Task 1 (not marked but recommended)

1. Go to the CA6 Advice forum in the Activity 6 tab and read the advice that has already
been written.
2. Write at least 5 pieces of advice on how to lead a healthier lifestyle:
● Write your name in parentheses after each piece of advice you write.
● Try not to repeat what your classmates have said. Be creative!
● Each piece of advice should be maximum 10 words long.
● Respond to several sentence beginnings.
● Use spell check and check your grammar.
● Make sure to save your changes.
If you want, you can also write new sentence beginnings.

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Examples are available in the CA6 Advice forum.

Pronunciation practice

1. After studying the online pronunciation materials (you can find the links on the
first page of these guidelines), go to LANGblog and watch your teacher’s video and read
the instructions for the task.

2. Prepare your own post and record it.

Task 2: What should I do?

Study Part 2 of Healthy

living
Task 2a: Review Task 2b: Record
Discussing problems useful language your role play and
Joining a gym for the speaking post it to the
task Forum

Study Part 2 of Healthy living before you do the tasks below.

In task 2, you and your partner are going to do a speaking activity in Tandem/Skype. Please
follow these instructions carefully because you will need 3 tools for this task:
1. Tandem to find the instructions and information to perform the interactive speaking
task;
2. Skype to talk to you partner;
3. Talk Helper or Ecamm (Mac) to record your conversation.

Download the PDF “Instrucciones de Instalación” from the Unit 6 section of the
classroom and read it carefully. Follow the instructions you’ll find in it.

How to use the Tandem tool

http://cv.uoc.edu/adf/~s_eao_0016_u03/Tandem%20Task%20Instructions.pdf

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In this task, one person pretends to be a family doctor and the other pretends to be a patient
with a health problem. Make sure to follow the specific instructions you will find when you
access Tandem. You will do two different versions of the task: one time you will be the doctor
and one time you will be the patient. Each task is different.

IMPORTANT NOTE:
Please remember that TANDEM is designed to include a sequence of tasks that you will
complete one by one. When you have finished the task on each page, click ‘See Solution’.
Then, move to the next task. Remember, you can only move forward – you cannot go back.

The objective of Tandem is to produce a single spontaneous spoken exchange of information.

You will get specific instructions for different parts of the task as you go along.

**DO NOT access the Tandem task multiple times to get information about the task and
prepare ahead of time**. Your teacher is able to see each student’s Tandem history (the
Access Archive) and you will be penalized if the Access Archive shows that you accessed
the task multiple times.

VERY IMPORTANT! Introduce yourself (say your full name) at the beginning of the recording
so the teacher knows who each person is.

VERY IMPORTANT! Tandem will only allow you to access the activity once. You cannot repeat
this activity. You CANNOT prepare a script to read, as this will lower your mark. Being
spontaneous and having a natural conversation is positively marked, even if this implies
moments of hesitation to think of something to say.

There are TWO tasks inside Tandem. If you do not complete both tasks, you will receive a
lower mark.

Your final audio file should be about 8 to 10 minutes long (about four to five minutes for each
task).

Task 2a

Task 2a takes place before the Tandem/Skype conversation.

1. Prepare for the call:
Review the useful language for describing problems, giving advice and agreeing and
disagreeing and prepare to use it while speaking.

Useful language for
describing problems
My problem is that...
I have a problem that I’d like
to discuss with you...
I don’t know what to do.
What really worries me is
that...
Useful language for giving
advice
You must… / You have to...
You ought to... / You should
… (I think) that’s a good idea.
You must never… / You
mustn’t... / Never...
You shouldn’t…
If you can’t..., you need to…
If you..., you will...
Useful language for agreeing
and disagreeing
(I think) that’s good advice.
(I think) you’re right.
Yes, I’ll try to do that.
I’m afraid that won’t work. /
I’m afraid I can’t do that.
(Sorry, but) I don’t think
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Task 2b
Task 2b is the speaking task with your partner.

During the Tandem/Skype call

Connect with your Do Role Play 1 . Do Role Play 2.

partner on Tandem. Student B (the patient)
Turn on the recording starts the conversation.
software. Make sure to negotiate
Say hello to your a solution you both
partner. agree on and use
language for describing
Say both names so that problems, giving advice,
your teacher knows and agreeing and
who is who. disagreeing.
Student A (the patient)
starts the conversation.
Make sure to negotiate
a solution you both
agree on and use
language for describing
problems, giving advice,
and agreeing and
disagreeing.

After the Tandem task/Skype call:

Upload your recording to the Google Drive folder called “CA6 Speaking [Audio
Files].” You will find it in the CA6 tab in the classroom. Use both your names and
surnames as the title (for example “Laura Muñoz and Alex Serrano”).

Assessment criteria for CA6 Marks

Task completion: completion of the task, length, effective 0-5
communication, extra task and optional work
Intelligibility, pronunciation, intonation: quality of contribution, clarity, 0-5
natural intonation
Interactive communication: initiating and developing interaction 0-5
Language complexity and accuracy: variety and accurate use of 0-5
vocabulary and grammar
Total mark __/20